Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu announced that in the 2022-month period of 10, hot air balloon tourism exceeded the pre-epidemic period and 32 thousand 309 passengers flew with hot air balloons, with a total of 660 thousand 79 commercial flights.
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu made a statement regarding the hot air balloon statistics for the January-October period of this year. Expressing that 2022 is a good year in terms of hot air balloon tourism, Minister Karaismailoğlu said, "Turkey's unique nature; Hot air balloon flights, which offer the opportunity to watch Pamukkale, Cappadocia and Çat Valley, attracted great attention. In 2020, we faced a decline in all transportation modes due to the impact of the Kovid-19 epidemic. With the effects of the epidemic process still continuing, although the tourism sector could not fully recover, we left this process behind in a short period of 2 years in terms of hot air balloon tourism. We reached the figures for 2019 very comfortably in the last 2022 months of 10. In the hot air balloon tourism in Cappadocia, we broke the record for the number of passengers we broke in 2019, in the 2022-month period of 10. While serving a total of 2019 thousand 586 hot air balloon passengers in 367, we increased the number of passengers to 590 thousand 887 in the January-October period of this year. We expect it to reach 2022 passengers by the end of 670.”
A RECORD IN THE NUMBER OF BALLOON PASSENGERS
Pointing out that both the number of flights and the number of passengers increase every year, Minister of Transport Karaismailoğlu said, “Hot air balloon tourism is growing every year. Although the outbreak of the epidemic has negatively affected the sector, hot air balloon tourism continues to rise. A total of 2019 thousand 25 commercial flights took place in 487 and 510 thousand 384 passengers used hot air balloons. These figures are in the 2022 months of 10; 27 thousand 634 flights and 590 thousand 887 passengers in Cappadocia, 4 thousand 153 flights and 61 thousand 426 passengers in Pamukkale, 603 flights and 7 thousand 776 passengers in the Çat Region, a total of 32 thousand 390 commercial flights and 660 thousand 79 passengers. reached. Our number of passengers has already been 2019 percent above the 11 figures," he stressed.
HOT AIR BALLOON TOURISM CONTINUES TO GROW
Stating that the hot air balloon industry, which is one of the rising tourism values of Turkey, is growing day by day with the number of passengers and flights, Karaismailoğlu also included the numbers of training and training flights.
Karaismailoglu; “The hot air balloon industry also grows in direct proportion to the number of passengers and flights. The number of companies serving in 3 different locations in the sector reached 2022 in 49. With the growth of the sector, a total of 4 training and training flights, 19 thousand 46 in Cappadocia and 5 thousand 65 in Pamukkale, were real. If we compare these figures with the pre-pandemic figures, we see that the 2019 thousand 3 training and training flights that took place in 25, covering the pre-pandemic process, increased by 2022 percent compared to the 10-month figures of 67.4.
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